Dr Toan Huynh

Profile

Toan is a Lecturer in Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the School of Business and Management. He holds a MSc in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics and a PhD in Finance from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Before joining Queen Mary in September 2022, he worked as a lecturer in Risk Management at the University of Southampton.

He is currently an editor of International Finance.

More information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/toanluu 

Teaching

Undergraduate

BUS359 - Contemporary Strategic Analysis

Postgraduate

BUSM147 - Strategic Analysis

BUSM189 - Introduction to the Digital Economy and Blockchain

BUSM190 - Introduction to Coding with Python

Research

Research Interests:

• Applied Economics
• Behavioural and Experimental Economics
• Financial Economics
• Political Economy

Centre and Group Membership

Member of the Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR).

Grant

• “Sanctions and Russian firm responses” by British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grants 2023

Special issue edition

• Wars, economic sanctions, economic behaviors, and institutions, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Guest Editor with Steven Ongena

Selected Publications

Journal articles

• What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late (sole-authored), Regional Studies (Volume 57, Issue 9, 2023)
• Asymmetric dynamic risk transmission between financial stress and monetary policy uncertainty: thinking in the post-COVID-19 world with C. Liang, Y. Hong, F. Ma, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (Volume 60, 2023)
• The forecast ability of a belief-based momentum indicator in full-day, daytime, and nighttime volatilities of Chinese oil futures with Y. Li, Y. Xu, and H. Liang, Energy Economics (Volume 127, November 2023)
• Global financial stress index and long-term volatility forecast for international stock markets with C. Liang, Q. Luo, Y. Li, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (Volume 88, October 2023)
• Market momentum amplifies market volatility risk: Evidence from China’s equity market with Y. Li and C. Liang, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (Volume 88, October 2023)
• Sovereign bonds and flight to safety: Implications of the COVID-19 crisis for sovereign debt markets in the G-7 and E-7 economies with M.A. Nasir, T. N. L. Le, Y. Ghabri, International Review of Financial Analysis (Volume 86, March 2023)
• Understanding the transmission of crash risk between cryptocurrency and equity markets with (P.F. Dai, J.W. Goodell, Z. Liu, and S. Corbet, Financial Review (Volume 58, Issue 3, 2023)
• The change in stock-selection risk and stock market returns with J. Liu, Q. He, Y. Li, and C. Liang, International Review of Financial Analysis (Volume 85, January 2023)
• Volatility spillovers, hedging and safe-havens under pandemics: All that glitters is not gold! with Y. Ghabri and M.A. Nasir, International Journal of Finance & Economics (2022).
• Public sentiment towards economic sanctions in the Russia–Ukraine war, with V. Ngo, H.H. Nguyen, and P.V. Nguyen, Scottish Journal of Political Economy (Volume 69, Issue, 5 2022)

Working paper

• The Impact of Foreign Sanctions on Firm Performance in Russia, with K. Hoang and S. Ongena (2022).

Toan has published articles in international refereed journals, including Nature Communications, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, among others.

Supervision

Dr Huynh is available for PhD supervision and encourages applications from students who are interested in applied and experimental economics. You are welcome to contact Dr Huynh (t.huynh@qmul.ac.uk) to discuss your proposal and ideas.

Public Engagement

Media

• The impact of foreign sanctions on firm performance in Russia on VoxEU.org – CEPR’s policy portal.
• Public sentiment towards economic sanctions in the Russia–Ukraine war on VoxEU.org – CEPR’s policy portal.
• Pro russe ou pro Ukraine ? Ce que l’analyse des posts Facebook dans 108 pays révèle de la genèse des sentiments sur la guerre on Atlantico.fr